MOD NOTE: Merged post.
Just wondering if I have a shot at Notre Dame REA! The first time I posted this it did not get any responses so going for round 2 lol
Demographics
- State/Location of residency: Wisconsin
- Type of high school: Competitive public - usually sends 1, maybe 2 kids to ND per year
- Gender/Race/Ethnicity: White female
- Other special factors: Legacy - my dad went there
Intended Major(s)
Computer Science
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 3.97/4.0
- Weighted HS GPA: 4.46/5.0
- Class Rank: Not sure, probably top 10%
- ACT: 34 (30M, 33S, 36R, 36E)
Coursework
AP HuG (4)
AP Gov (3)
AP Psych (5)
AP CSA (predict 4)
AP CSP (predict 4)
AP Calc BC (honestly no idea how I did)
APUSH (predict 3)
AP Lang (predict 3)
Senior year courseload:
AP Physics C
AP Econ
AP Lit
AP French
Calc 3/linear algebra
Awards
- NCWIT Women in Computing Affiliate Winner
- Won a small local engineering competition
- NHS
- AP Scholar
Extracurriculars
Destination Imagination
- Team Co-captain
- Qualified for States 3x
- Competed at Global Finals 2x
- Created a DI team for students with special needs to compete on
- Created a social media account to share DI memes
Community Service (3 years)
- 200+ hours working with kids with special needs/bringing them on local field trips
Coding (2 years)
- Extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- created several personal websites from scratch
- helped fix up the website for my dad’s apartments
Part-time job (1 yr)
- 15-20 hours/week
- helped build the store last summer
- usually in charge of the register/other general retail tasks
Best Buddies (3 years)
- selected for the leadership board, was one of 4 people out of 70 in the club to help plan and lead meetings
Cross Country (JV) (4 years)
- active member, not very good at it but I really had fun with it
- planned a lot of team bonding activities
Summer Programs
- Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Camp (2020)
- Notre Dame Summer Scholars Research Computing Track (2021)
Student-Athlete Leadership Council (3 years)
- led discussions about making good choices for middle schoolers
Photography (3 years)
- Self-taught in digital photography and Adobe photoshop, but no significant accomplishments or anything
Essays/LORs/Other
Essay: I’m a decent writer, but I don’t really think they’ll be anything crazy special, I will try to have fun with it though
LOR 1: My Calc BC teacher, I think he’ll write a pretty good one as I worked hard in his class and he kinda got to know my personality
LOR 2: My AP CSA teacher, he will definitely be able to speak on my skill in Computer Science but didn’t know my personality really well.